PORTLAND METRO AREA BOTL - need help. Bad.

LiquidChaos66

I woke up to the gas cap hanging off my car yesterday. Tonight our neighbors dog was barking for 45 minutes. We called the cops about the dog. The cops came out and right after they left a man ran out from behind my car and took off on a bike. Someone was trying to get into our house tonight. I need to find somewhere to live ASAP. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN! My family is at risk.

roland_7707

I got a couch man. Seriously though, praying for ya man. Thats crazy.

LiquidChaos66

Bob Luken

Damn. I hate that you are not in a safe place. That really sucks. People suck.

LiquidChaos66

Our house is goin on the market this week. We bought into it with a crap ton of equity so we shouldn't have many issues buying a new house when it sells. Just sucks cause it's my first house, I drained my retirement account to buy it and move in, we just put on a new roof and I'll lose my man cave.

Bigshizza

LiquidChaos66:

Our house is goin on the market this week. We bought into it with a crap ton of equity so we shouldn't have many issues buying a new house when it sells. Just sucks cause it's my first house, I drained my retirement account to buy it and move in, we just put on a new roof and I'll lose my man cave.

Thought about a surveillance system? German Shepherd? Gun?

LiquidChaos66

We don't have the time to dedicate to a dog. working as much as we do it would be fair for the poor pooch... On top of having 4 cats already.... Lol I do have a gun in the house. I'm going I be teaching my daughter gun safety today. Since last night I have decided I will be sleeping in the living room on an air mattress with my trust 38 special until we feel comfortable again. I'm sure this was just a fluke incident. But it still is scary as crap to see a stranger emerge from the side of your house at 4am.

jbohon

The3Stogies

Thank God no one was hurt. Still an intrusion on your privacy and makes you feel violated, for lack of a better term. Dogs are good, always had one, but anything that makes noise will work and lighting too, motion sensors. You can get simple devices for windows and doors that will sound when opened. Generally lighting will scare them off before anyone gets hurt. Plus you will have an illuminated target making it easier to shoot between their feet, and they sh*t themselves sometimes too.

dennisking

where in pdx are you, do you want to stay in pdx, and if not, where. I know some peeps

LiquidChaos66

We are looking to stay in portland or milwaukie. We've started the house hunt already and are hoping something works out jn the process of selling this house

CharlieHeis

avengethis

dr_frankenstein56

dennisking

LiquidChaos66

We have a a lady that's worked with my family and my in laws that's going to help us sell our house. She was the one who convinced us to check this house out in the first place. I still love it here. I don't want to leave... it kills me that we are leaving this place. we might have a place lined up to buy already. My dad is looking to sell his house and it's on a quiet cul-de-sac in Milwaukie OREGON lol nice big house and a great yard. Two car garage too! But we aren't sure if that's what we wanna do yet.

jgibv

Dang Chris, sorry to hear that. That really rattles ya up and takes away your sense of safety. Motion lights, security alarm, dog, and self defense are all good to have but still may not give you peace of mind after an experience like that. Similar thing happened to us a few places ago when we lived downtown....lived at the end of a short street & in about a 2 weeks span all the houses on our street were broken into except ours and 1 other. We're pretty sure the dog scared them off......but one afternoon was working from home sitting outside and guy gets about 3/4 over our back fence (probably trying to case the house) when I call him out and say wtf are you doing get out of here. Called cops they followed him but said they couldn't do anything. Cop told me "you can take the rat out of the hood but you can't take the hood out of the rat" figured it was some type of gang initiation "steal x amount of Tvs in a night, etc"....needless to say we moved soon after

dennisking

LiquidChaos66

I love that entire area. Closer to the river things get better and all the old homes there... Just beautiful neighborhoods. Thanks for te best wishes and support! I'm a lucky guy to be in such a great community of BOTL. realtor comes to our place tomorrow for photos and appraisal so hope all goes well.

perkinke

A friend from grad school is selling her house in Milwaukie, I'll try and track down the info. I've never been to her house so I can't vouch for any of it, but hey, it's what I know of at the moment.

raisindot

perkinke

LiquidChaos66

Yeah we need to stay in portland or as close as possible. Mostly constrained to specific areas cause of my daughters kindergarten.